What are some anecdotes about Zheng Banqiao? What is Zheng Banqiao famous for?

Zheng Banqiao is indeed known for being weird, especially when others ask him to paint. There are many anecdotes about Zheng Banqiao, such as selling paintings at a marked price, being deceived into painting, practicing calligraphy with style, and playing tricks on the gentry.

1. One of the anecdotes. Zheng Banqiao is famous for his paintings, and he also makes a living from painting, but he has a principle of painting, that is, painting is not expensive for a high price, which leads some people to think that it is an expression of personality, while others think it is extremely strange and unreasonable. Zheng Banqiao is a little cynical, and he is most unaccustomed to those local gentry who cling to the powerful and flattering on weekdays, even if these gentry are out, he will ignore them.

When Zheng Banqiao is happy, he will paint, and his pen is like the wind, just like nature, but when he is unhappy, he will not do it if he asks him to paint. Zheng Banqiao's reckless behavior seemed strange but unconventional in the social environment at that time, which also made him one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou".

Zheng Banqiao's frankness is also reflected in the way he sells paintings, "6 taels in large sizes, 4 taels in the medium format, 2 taels in small sizes, 1 tael in banner couplets, and 5 yuan in fan buckets", even in today's view, famous painters will not mark the price of their paintings, but Zheng Banqiao is so strange, which also makes him the first painter to sell paintings at a clear price.

2. Anecdote 2. Zheng Banqiao is very fond of dog meat, one day, he went out with his friends to play, on the way to pass by a village, the owner of the cottage happened to be cooking dog meat, its meat was overflowing, leading Zheng Banqiao to go straight to the villager's house. Coincidentally, the villager did not drive Zheng Banqiao and his party away, but warmly invited them to eat dog meat, Zheng Banqiao did not doubt it, and sat down with a smile and began to eat meat.

As the saying goes, dog meat rolls three times, and the gods can't stand steady, after Zheng Banqiao enjoyed the blessings, he saw the villagers take out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and beg him to make a couplet, so Zheng Banqiao made a couplet. Later, Zheng Banqiao found a work made for the villagers at a banquet, and he immediately realized that he had been deceived, which turned out to be a bureau set up by the gentry for his calligraphy and painting. Zheng Banqiao was annoyed and only blamed himself for being greedy.

Zheng Banqiao wrote a thief poem, and it is said that the thief saw Zheng Banqiao's thief poem, and he changed his mind and was not stealing.

Zheng Banqiao is famous for being weird and quite infamous. Zheng Banqiao loves to eat dog meat, and the local tyrant squire wanted to get his calligraphy and painting to use a strategy, and got the painting, but he didn't expect to find his painting hanging there during a banquet, and regretted that he was greedy.

Zheng Banqiao's way of being an official was very innovative, in order to warn the world not to be a bad person, he hung his own paintings on the prisoners paraded in the street to attract the attention of others. And Zheng Banqiao is best known for his calligraphy and painting attainments.

Study calligraphy hard, because Zheng Banqiao insists on practicing calligraphy all year round, Zheng Banqiao is famous for his poetry, calligraphy and painting "three uniques".

The stories about Zheng Banqiao are: Zheng Banqiao learning calligraphy, Zheng Banqiao "slaughtering customers", and Zheng Banqiao satirizing monks.

Zheng Banqiao's "slaughtering customers" is about: There is a Zhang Zhenren in Jiangxi, favored by Qianlong, after entering Beijing to meet the court, passing through Yangzhou, local businessmen are vying to meet the horse.

One thought of an idea and played something elegant, so he asked Zheng Banqiao to write a couplet for him. For this reason, he specially sent someone to Jiangxi to order a long zhangxu, a large paper with a width of more than six feet, and brought it to Banqiao. This paper is too big, far beyond the scope of Itabashi Runge's "large six taels", and I have to write a sentence for it, so I have to ask the price in particular.

Banqiao offered a price of 1,000 taels without thinking, after all, the person who came was a business veteran in Yangzhou, and the price was 500 taels casually. Unexpectedly, Banqiao did not think twice and readily agreed. With a wave of the pen, it became a couplet:

The true prime minister of Dragon and Tiger Mountain. The visitor was full of praise and asked him to write a couplet.

Banqiao smiled: "I said that I would give one thousand taels, but you only gave five hundred taels, so I had to write half of it to you." Only then did the visitor realize that he had suffered a loss, and in a hurry, he went back to ask the big businessman for advice.

The merchant couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and finally he was helpless and offered it all. Zheng Banqiao wrote the following couplet: "Your Excellency Qilan is a living immortal."

It's really a witty statement, and the merchants are very satisfied.

There are not many people like Itabashi who are so funny and dare to speak and act. Due to the beginning of the trend, it was not so easy to sell paintings in the early Qing Dynasty calligraphy and painting market. On the contrary, there are also some people who go to the other extreme, equating the sale of calligraphy and paintings with ordinary transactions, and gradually vulgarizing them.

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Zheng Banqiao (1693-1766), formerly known as Zheng Xie, was a famous painter, calligrapher and writer in the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi Xiucai, Yongzheng ten years of people, the first year of Qianlong (1736) Jinshi. Guanshan Fan County and Weixian County Order, there is a political voice "to ask for relief for the people with hunger, and the big officials are angry, so they beg to return home."

Later, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living selling paintings. It is one of the "Eight Strange Creatures of Yangzhou", and its poems, calligraphy and paintings are known as the "Three Uniques", and he is good at painting orchid bamboo.

Zheng Banqiao was born in a poor intellectual family, lost his mother at an early age, and was raised by his stepmother. When he was a teenager, he studied in the township ancestor Lu Zhen, and was a talent in his 20s, and in the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), he was a scholar in the first year of Qianlong (1736). For seven years, he served as the magistrate of Fan County, Shandong.

A year later, he was transferred to Weixian. In thirteen years, Emperor Qianlong Hongli traveled east to Mount Tai, and he was the history of calligraphy and painting. In the eighteenth year, he was dismissed because he offended the officials for asking for relief.

The seals commonly used on his calligraphy and painting are: "Kangxi Xiucai, Yongzheng Juren, Qianlong Jinshi", "Qianlong Dongfeng Calligraphy and Painting History", "Seven Grades of Official Ears", etc., which can be said to be a record of his life.

Zheng Banqiao is a calligrapher and painter in the Qing Dynasty, when he was a child, he was smart and studious, but his family was very poor, there was no money to buy oil lamps for reading at night, he went to an ancient shop nearby, read by the light inside, and later he entered myopia, became a county order, Zheng Banqiao's most outstanding achievement in his life is to read in poetry and painting, one is known as the three unique poems, calligraphy and painting, most of his poems come from the county life, and it is wonderful to read.

What kind of spray hands? Ah, how not, how not.

The short story of Guan Zhi's burning in Zheng Banqiao is as follows:

After Zheng Banqiao resigned and went home, because the official was honest and clean, there was only a yellow dog and a pot of orchids. On a dark and rainy night in January. It was cold, Zheng Banqiao couldn't sleep, and a thief patronized.

He thought: If I shout loudly, in case the thief makes a move, I am powerless to deal with it, and I want to pretend to be asleep and let him take it, and I am not reconciled in my heart. After a moment's thought, he turned inward and whispered:

The drizzle was drizzling and the night was heavy, and Liang Shangjun rented a son to enter my door. ”

At this time, the thief was close to the bedside, and he was secretly alarmed. Then I heard again: "There are thousands of volumes of poems and books in the abdomen, and there is no half of the gold and silver at the bedside."

The thief thought to himself: Don't steal. Turning around and going out, I heard it inside

Go out and frighten the yellow-tailed dog. The thief thought, since there is a vicious dog, why not go over the wall. I was about to go up the wall, and I smelled it

Over the wall do not damage the orchid pots. The thief saw that there was a pot of orchids on the wall, but he carefully avoided it, and landed on the ground, and there was a rumor in the house: "It's too cold to put on clothes and send it, take advantage of the moon to drive the wealthy."

It can be seen that after Zheng Banqiao resigned, he lived a poor life.

Zheng Xie, the word Kerou, the number Banqiao. A native of Xinghua, Jiangnan, a jinshi in the first year of Qianlong. Guanshan Dongwei County, Zhixian County.

Representative works include: "Rare Confusion", "Bamboo Repair New Fence Map", "Qingguang Lingering Picture", "Orchid Bamboo Fangxin Picture", "Gangu Chrysanthemum Spring Picture", "Stone Dry Xiao Picture", "Cong Lan Thorn Picture", "Painting Bamboo Gift Picture".